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1. yvojolie
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hi,

   I use WordPress for quite some time now and whenever I had something it wouldn't do I just come to these forums and find my answer in notime!

   Today, however, I stumbled upon a problem I just can't understand that good and I've been searching for over 2 hours now to find a solution for.

   Ok, here's the thing…
   I want to show a blogpost like this:
   "Category Name - Blablabla this is the content of the post or page, blablalba."

   In my HTML file, it looks like this:
   <p><strong><a href="/category-name/" title="Category Name">Category Name</a></strong>- Blablabla this is the content of the post or page, blablalba.</p>

   But in WordPress, the only thing I can do is place <?php echo get_the_category_list(', '); ?> before <?php the_content( __( 'Read more »', 'mythemename' ) ); ?> but then the category link show up before the paragraph-tag of the_content, while I want to place it inside that paragraph-tag.

   Does anyone know how to make this work?

   Sincerely,
   Yvo

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 8 months ago #

   possibly with a filter for 'the_content', added into functions.php of the theme;

   example:

   add_filter('the_content', 'add_category_into_content');
   function add_category_into_content($text) {
   global $post;
   $text = get_the_category_list(', ', '', $post->ID) . $text;
   return $text;
   }

3. yvojolie
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks @alchymyth!
   Works like a charm. ;)

4. ErikAtLarge
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hey @alchymyth and @yvojolie this is great stuff.

   I am trying to insert the "category list" anywhere I want inside the actual content. When I follow your example it posts it before all of the_content.

   I followed the answer provided on this forum by @vtxyzzy and it worked well with allowing me to post the_title inside the_content using a shortcode. Here is the code from that forum (I especially enjoy the ability to add html tags before and after!)
   

   function mm_insert_title_func($atts) {
      // Insert the post title, with optional before and after strings.
      // [mm-insert-title before='<h3>' after='</h3>']
      global $post;
      extract(shortcode_atts(array('before' => '', 'after' => '' ), $atts));
      $output = "{$before}{$post->post_title}{$after}";
   
      return $output;
   }
   add_shortcode('mm-insert-title', 'mm_insert_title_func');

   But trying to hack it together to work with get_the_category_list hasn't worked yet.

   To sum up, I want to be able to place all categories inside my content with the same functionality it usually has everywhere else in wordpress.

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